Thanksgiving Mourning

While this comment is old it is still worth noting that the students in your class must feel deeply sad to be constantly burdened with your racism leaching into your teaching. I am sure that you voted for Trump as you were two years in front of his hateful, ethnocentric, xenophobic, bigoted, corrupt run to the Presidency. I can only hope that your retirement party was about 5 years ago so that the damage done to students and to our profession has been mitigated.

Great resource!

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I would give this a zero except the rating system only starts at one. I am a teacher and a parent. If my child came home having been taught such politically correct revisionist nonsense I'd go straight to the principal. This is an outrageous attack on the pilgrims and by extension the founding fathers. Were our forebears perfect? No, but neither were the Indians. I should know as my anestors were scalped in an Indian attack. So stop the nonsense and let's get back to the importance of the holiday and that is that the pilgrims were persecuted and came here for religious freedom. Some Indians were peaceful and some were war-like. I have read about various Commanche attacks on the whites including their stealing of girls for wives and massacres that makes Isis look a bunch of wimps in comparison. So let's get some perspective and stop the revisionist white man always wrong always bad teaching. It's nauseating. November is American Indian Heritage month? Nice way to take the spotlight off the pilgrims. That surely cannot be an accident. Nice attack on our founders.

Good resource. Nice to see another perspective about this holiday.